1、2005年武汉大学博士研究生人学考试英语试题(注意：答案必须写在答题纸上，写在试卷上无效)Part IReading Comprehension(40%)Directions:There are 5 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questionsor unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C andD.You should decide on the best choice and mark
2、 your answer on the ANSWERSHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage:The calendar used in Australia and in most other countries was introduced by Pope CregoryXIII in 1582.It provides for 366 days in those years for which the year
3、number when divided by4 gives a whole number(i.e.without a remainder)those years are called leap years.All otheryears have 365 days.The Gregorian calendar further specifies that.years whose year number isdivisible evenly by 100 are not leap years,unless the year number is also divisible by 400.In a
4、leap year February has 29 days,whereas in a non-leap year it has 28 days.A decade is a 10-year period,such as 1 January 1885-31 December 1894.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage:The calendar used in Australia and in most other countries was introduced by Pope CregoryXIII in 1582.It p
5、rovides for 366 days in those years for which the year number when divided by4 gives a whole number i.e.without a remainder)those years are called leap years.All otheryears have 365 days.The Gregorian calendar further specifies that.years whose year number isdivisible evenly by 100 are not leap year
6、s,unless the year number is also divisible by 400.In a leap year February has 29 days,whereas in a non-leap year it has 28 days.A decade is a 10-year period,such as 1 January 1885-31 December 1894.1.Which of the following years was a leap year?A.1880B.1894.C.1906.D.1926.2.Which of the following year
7、s will not be a leap year?A.2000.B.2024.C.2052.D.3000.3.How many leap years will there be in the decade commencing I January 2019?A.1.B.2.C.3.D.4.4.Since 1582,the maximum number of leap years possible in any decade is1010A.2B.3C.4D.5Questions 5 to 8 are based on the following passage:When you meet T
8、im Winton,its easy to understand his success at writing for teenagers.Helikes surfing and fishing and camping and hanging out in the vast tract of sand dunes that bordersthe one-pub fishing town where he lives in Western Australia.Hle even looks like the big kid who sat behind you in high school and
9、 has the kind of laid-back manner and earthy conversation that you know appeals to those too young to be treated askids but not grown-up enough to be admitted to the adult world.Wintons first foray into teenage fiction,Lockie Leonard,Human Torpedo,is about to go intoits second printing.Even more gra
10、tifying for the writer has been the response the book hasprompted.Hes had scores of appreciative letters from kids,parents,teachers,and has readpassages from the ok to students in country high schools.Writing for young readers has also enabled Winton to find a wider,non-literary audience.Its very di
11、fficult to break out of the few-thousand-group of Australians who read,of whom halfor all are professional or semi-professional readers.Its nice to get to people who arent jaded,who will come at a story and read it for what it is.You dont have to deal with their educationand their past and their bia
12、ses.Winton was himself still a teenager when he started writing seriously at 16.Three years later,in 1981,he was named joint winner of The Australian Vogel Literary Award for his first novel,AnOpen Swimmer.Had he known when he was 16 how difficult it is to make a living as a writer,hewould never hav
13、e started.I was about 10 when I decided I wanted to be a writer,and I guess Ilacked the imagination to think of anything else,he said.I got the idea and I just stuck withit.I was unaware of how hard it is to make a living from the people you have to deal with.Neither lack of imagination nor inattent
14、ion to detail is evident in Wintons writing.In ThatEye,The Sky,he takes us into the turbulent soul of his 12-year-old protaganist,Morton Flack,with prose that sends you back to long,hot summer holidays in the country.The hot white day swims along real slow like the sun is breast-stroking through tha
15、t blue skywhen it should be going freestyle.Everyone hangs around the shade of the house listening to thetrees in the east wind.The ground is wobbly with heat.The house ticks.You can hear seedspopping,grass drying up and fainting flat.You can hear the snakes puffing.n.IUPp塔，63a0uy培up aiu ia5a,vua1oa
16、oo1an0Puu6:Other young protagonists have been given voice in Wintons short stories,so the transition towriting for teenagers,instead of about them,was a smooth one.Lockies not so different in tonefrom the adult books,he said.If you get too self-conscious when youre writing for kids,youend up talking
17、 down to them-you just use your own tone and be yourself,and if that doesntrk,it probably wouldnt have anyway.5.Winton hopes to reach an audience(in Paragraph 4)that is11A.youthful and caringB.unprofessional and jadedC.educated and widely readD.unbiased and spontaneous6.Which of these statements is
18、best supported from the passage in Paragraph 5?A.It is best to start writing when you are young.B.Earning a living from writing requires painstaking effort.C.The decision to become a writer was carefully considered.D.The decision to become a writer was not carefully considered.7.According to the las
19、t paragraph,the transition from writing for an adult audience to writing fora younger audience is easy for Winton becauseA.he deliberately adopts a suitable toneB.it has happened later in his writing careerC.he has written about young people beforeD.he has been preparing for this for much of his wri
20、ting career沙8.The kind of tone Tim Winton aims for in his writing is best described asA.gentleB.naturalC.humbleD.self-consciousQuestions 9 to 12 are based on the following passage:Robert Menzies was conservative Prime Minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and againfrom 1949 until his retirement in
21、 1966.Menzies provoked a variety of responses during hispolitical career.Views I to Iv below summarize some of those resnoneaepolitical career.Views I to IV below summarize some of those responses.View I The supreme twentieth-century statesman and politician,presiding with ease over thenation,and re
22、presenting Australia abroad with dignity and aplomb.View II Authoritarian despite his professed liberal beliefs,he was the enemy of the workers,who stayed in office for seventeen years through a combination of unscrupulousopportunism,remarkable good luck,and the gullibility of the Australian people.
23、ViewIl Menzies imposed the values of a bygone age on Australia,with his devotion to Britainand the British monarchy,and his cautious conservatism.He suppressed a new,creative,energetic generation by cultivating smugness,fear and indifference in theAustralia of the 1950s and 1960s.View M Downright de
24、mocratic,something new and different but with an easy-going manner andaggressive independence.9.Which of the Views I-IV)expresses the strongest admiration for Menzies?A.I.B.1.C.D.I.12鸡10.Which of the Views I-IV)is most damning about Menzieseffect on Australias culturalidentity?A.I.B.C.D.I.11.Aggress
25、ive independence(View IV)is most at odds with the suggestion of MenziesA.easy authority(View IB.hypocrisy(View)）C.political cunning View IID.devotion to Britain View I)12.Views I to N of Menzies all represent him as a man who wasA.dignified and remoteB.scheming and ruthlessC.rigid and old-fashionedD.forceful and influential、Questions 13 to 16 are based on the following passage:In the following passage,Philip Roth is talking to a friend,Joanna,about his father.Did I ever tell you what happened when he was mugged a couple of years ago?He couldhave got himself killed.
